noise the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable and ceo perspectives for the bank that broke americas trust. I now recognize myself for five minutes with an Opening Statement. Today, wells far go ceo, charles scharf, will testify before the committee about how he plans to end wells fargo egregious battle of abuse. Hes the third wells fargo ceo to testify before this committee and less than three and a half years. I will note that each time wells fargo ceo testified before this committee, he has resigned soon thereafter. Mr. Charles scharf, you have taken on a massive challenge and while i certainly wish you luck, it is clear to this committee that the bank you inherited is essentially a flawless organization that has caused widespread harm to millions of consumers around the nation. Wells fargo has opened 3. 5 million fraudulent accounts with their
noise the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable and ceo perspectives for the bank that broke americas trust. I now recognize myself for five minutes with an Opening Statement. Today, wells far go ceo, charles scharf, will testify before the committee about how he plans to end wells fargo egregious battle of abuse. Hes the third wells fargo ceo to testify before this committee and less than three and a half years. I will note that each time wells fargo ceo testified before this committee, he has resigned soon thereafter. Mr. Charles scharf, you have taken on a massive challenge and while i certainly wish you luck, it is clear to this committee that the bank you inherited is essentially a flawless organization that has caused widespread harm to millions of consumers around the nation. Wells fargo has opened 3. 5 million fraudulent accounts with their
We will come to order. The tears authorized to had to recess at any time. This is the Federal Reserves that are annual monetary report. Without objection, all members have five days in which to submit extraneous materials for inclusion in the record. I will note at the outset, we have a hard stop at 1 00 p. M. To the observed. I see chairman powell smile. Thats three hours. I will know recognize myself for the opening statement. In june of 2023, the conversation in washingtons concerning inflation shifted significantly. Not because of the lectionary fire has been extinguished. From the most recent data available, food cost is up 21 as President Biden took office. Energy costs are up more than 32 . Shelter costs are of more than 19 and you will pay 37 more for a dozen eggs in america today. As we said in january, people are still paying more for the basics of life and the prices they are paying are still high. And they arent happy about it, as you know, it is our colleagues know. But ac
September, and if you havent paid attention tesla shares are down 10 this week alone only two trading days. If they had gotten ai from oh. Well talk about that, a war of words, openai is firing back at elon musk. Theres 1 chance well talk about it. Publishing emails appear no show the tesla cofounder did support creating a for profit entity. Lets begin with the markets and the testimony from the fed chair today. Jim, got some news on what he will say in terms of written words. Yeah. Look, i kind of when march is off the table, i think this is, obviously, one of those, i want to get a little more expansive and getting tired of the game of what month instead, what i see is a man who said listen, were not going to have a hard landing or soft landing. Were fine if it gets weaker well cut. Its kind of a Great Central bank essay about what you need to do in order to be able to get out of an inflationary period. David, i think hes becoming more of a, lets just say a true statesman how far to
Markets. Expecting nikki haley in south carolina, Jerome Powell in washington, d. C. We have the s p 500 up about one half of 1 . And the nasdaq 100 also seeing similar gains of stocks. The Philadelphia Semiconductor index on track to erase the losses from yesterday and we have the twoyear yield just dropping down to 453 on the day. Now, were going to bring you the jolt state joined by Michael Mckee to join with us the details. Michael looks like shanoly, it is unchanged. The revised number was 8889. Not a drop there but it was a significant from over 9 million. No change there. Sonali as we wait for Jerome Powell to start his. , what is his expectation out of not just what he will say on the onset what types of questions he may get . Michael hes already given up his text. Its very short and he repeats the idea that theyre high rate and they will cut rates. They hope some time this year. But they have to make sure that inflation is still on its way down. So nothing new in that. The que